DMP: Poster

With the poster deadline coming up .. 2 weeks to go.. I have completed my first rough poster, I am going to try and have a look at it in the room we have booked for our presentation at some point this week to see whether the allocated areas are the right size, I'm feeling confident about this assignment and hope to have my progress report and some notes to help present the poster by Monday.


My Poster's Link

Standing Out!

I have editted my blog now so that each module blgo post has a different colour so it stands out, this will make it easy to spot which post is for which module.

I am also becoming a bit of a blogging fan!!

DMP: Progress

This week I have contacted my client and asked for a copy of all the companies on the trading estate and their contact details. I have decided to do my project a bit backwards as my client is based in Dorset. So it will be alot easier for me to work on my client research and bits and bobs when I am home over the Festive Period.

So for now I am going to send out an email/letter to all companies explaining the project that has been put forward and to get any initial ideas from them.

I have also been playing around with the layout and getting a simple basic trading estate website up and running, I'm not too worried about the design as much at this stage and am focusing more on getting the backend and technical side working.

I am also going to be looking at PHP sessions and trying to get my head around this!

http://www.chardesign.co.uk/uwe/cms/framework/

ATWD: Looking at this week

This week we summarised what we have learnt already and what we are going to be looking at in the next 6-8 weeks. I have decided to start blogging on this module aswell as if anything it can work as a source to help revise when the EXAM TIME hits us!

The following subjects are what we will soon be looking at.

Rest/ful
Feeds - Atom, RSS
Restful architecture
XML
name spaces
MicroFormats
AJAX
HTML 5
google wave
Semantic Web
Topic Maps
RDF
MVC patterns


I have also included Prakash Chatterjee Blog RSS on to this blog, it can also be found here.

IAD: Presentation assignment

So one presentation down and now to prepare for the next, with this one being a marked assesment.

For my presentation this time I have to look at a technology, I am going to kill two birds with one stone and look at CMS as a technology. This will help toward my digital media project aswell as it will count towards my research.

My original idea for this presentation involves comparing two CMS systems I have already come across which are as follows:



CMS Made Simple





Joomla

IAD: How the web helps with publication

This weeks lecture was taken by Rob Stephens because Chris has had an accident on his boat.. speedy recovery Chris!

He spoke to us about how the web can be used to make publication alot easier such as sites such as Amazon. Amazon found that they made most of their money with their long tail inventory because users/customers found it easier to find specific books online. As it would take them alot longer to find a specific book in a Waterstone shop, because there are thousands and thousands of books to look through, where as online they could simply search the book and find it instantly or at least a lot faster.



Attention economy/scarcity:
Attention is the key scarcity factor
Distrubution is given - attention is not
All media fights fot attention and the users time.

The moer information on the web the harder it is to search for it meaning the search engines have to improve all the time and become more sophisticated and become more effective.

Google is the best search engine for finding things.

There are different classes of search:

Sample search
Existing search
Exhaustive search - everything that contains 'x' ... this can't be done it cannot find orphan pages, and the minority of the web is indexed.
Some sites have a no robot tag, aswell as google lock outs, wehre publicers think google are making money out of their content so they block the search engines out.



Rob Stephens- Blog

IAD: Presentation

Last weeks presentations went very well, I think everyone produced a good presentation and covered some interesting points on their different sections..

I will be uploading my power point presentation on this blog... watch this space

DMP: Current Progress

So im starting to put a few bits and bobs onto my blogs now so I can share with others what progress ive made and try and get some feedback of peers so please feel free to comment on anything!!

Here is my power point prototype version 1!!

Im now starting to look into more detail what the users will need to update and trying to design a user friendly form for this.